Look at the calendar. It seems we have a very important day circled there. No, it’s not a Monday Bank Holiday. It’s the Good Show Sir 10th Birthday Gala! I guess we need to post OUR GREATEST COVER EVER! Which, unfortunately, Tag Wizard forgot to organize. So we will just have to fish something out of the slush pile. At least the title is somewhat relevant.

Good Show Comments: The whole Good Show Sir experience was eerily foretold in B. Flackes’ classic science fiction novel “Ten Years to Oblivion”!

Thanks to all of our GSS After Dark club members for making it to the JuJu Chelsea for a wild evening of wining and dining. And what a surprise! Thanks to our good friends at Baen for picking up the tab. Didn’t you know? They bought us out last month in an unfriendly takeover. Well it’s been a good run.

Good Show Comments: Yeah, it’s photoshopped. We bought one of those edible photo cakes and even sent over a picture of our favourite book cover on a thumb drive for the baker to put on the icing. Unfortunately this is what was delivered to the party:

Good Show Comments: But thanks anyway to all the loyal kooks who have been showing up these many years and somehow keeping this shitshow going. And for all the commenters who have fallen by the wayside. And for the one-off drive-by’s who remind us that it was really a great book and the cover is very professionally done and shows something that was really in the story. Remember, the real Good Show Sir were the friends we made along the way. Or some such bollocks.

@anon: It’s all too common. safeway’s particularly infamous but any grocery big enough to have its own bakery has a good chance of having a preliterate, overworked high school student in it. See cakewrecks.com for far too many examples of stupid.

I haven’t been here for the whole decade, but it sure feels like it. I owe so much to GSS—hours wasted at work ready to hit the screen saver when any normal person strolls in; moments of existential angst when someone beats me to an obvious joke; learning patience as my many tag requests end up on the cutting room floor; above all, the joy of encountering the Phrase That Changed My Life: “Narwhals upon the parapet.”

I wonder sometimes if the next generation will care enough to just slap together some terrible cover art and say “this will do’. Or whether they will have robots who will just Photoshop everything to perfection. May you never run out of bad cover art, GSS.

@fred – You are obviously a man who has done his research. I like the final paragraph of the article:

“I’m just sorry for Lindsay Dye that her father is dead. By that I mean, he has to be. Because if my daughter told me she was going to be a professional Cake Sitter, as soon as that first cake came out of the oven, I’d turn up the gas, blow out the pilot and stick my head in. I guess maybe I am judging.”

Congratulations to the GSS staff and contributors for ten years! I’ve only dropped in for the last two or so, so I’m still new here. Couldn’t afford to get to the party – was home sick with some nasty virus.

On the covers:

1. Hey, isn’t that one of the former members of Kraftwerk?

2. No, no! Don’t shoot the nosecone off the rocket! You’ll be stuck with those darn invaders if you do!

Gosh, I’ve only been here for about a quarter of that, but I HAVE looked at ALL the postings and appeared in re-enactments of a couple of the books, so I feel quite a part of the gang. (nyuk nyuk)

Many goofy thanks to Admin, the long-suffering Tag Wizard, the hard-working Space Sheep (and the even harder-working Mouton De L’espace), used book dealers everywhere, Dick Blade, and of course to all the amusing regulars.

Good Show, Everyone!

Photo #3 overlaps with another fun blog, “Cake Wrecks”. Wal-Mart keeps them in business, I think.

I didn’t know about the BAEN!explosions and boobs takeover, but that explains why my ankle cast ended up being spray-painted bright orange with useless “tactical” doo-dads glued on.

Happy ten years! Thanks to everyone, especially the people basically running the site now while I sit back in a tax free haven living the high life with all my $$$ I’ve made through the site. Yep living it up with negative 300 quid!

Happiest returns to you lovely loonies! Looks like you guys fell afoul of a cake wrecker with that pic of yer thumb drive. I was reading an Honorverse book (cats, David Weber, Baen, etc…) and all I could think of was GSS.
Here’s to another ten years of floating C.S. Lewis, the Space Sheep, the legendary Tag Wizard, and to the harried Admin. And also, a fine future for all the commenters!

Congrats GSS on 10 years. Since I’ve been on this site, I’ve been divorced, had 3 kids, remarried, bought and sold 3 houses, had a car stolen, lost a bit of hair, and gained a bit of grayer hair…But throughout all the ups and downs GSS (and the community) has been there for me to turn to for a good chuckle. Thanks everyone!